Robot-assisted surgeryRobot-assisted surgery or robotic surgery are any types of surgical procedures that are performed using robotic systems. Robotically assisted surgery was developed to try to overcome the limitations of pre-existing minimally-invasive surgical procedures and to enhance the capabilities of surgeons performing open surgery. In the case of robotically assisted minimally-invasive surgery, instead of the surgeon directly moving the instruments, the surgeon uses one of two methods to perform dissection, hemostasis and resection, using a direct telemanipulator, or through computer control.
Environmental issuesEnvironmental issues are disruptions in the usual function of ecosystems. Further, these issues can be caused by humans (human impact on the environment) or they can be natural. These issues are considered serious when the ecosystem cannot recover in the present situation, and catastrophic if the ecosystem is projected to certainly collapse. Environmental protection is the practice of protecting the natural environment on the individual, organizational or governmental levels, for the benefit of both the environment and humans.
Science de l'environnementLa science de l'environnement ou science environnementale est une discipline qui intègre les sciences physiques et biologiques telles la physique, la chimie (la biochimie et la chimie de l'environnement), la biologie, l'écologie, la pédologie, la géologie, la géomorphologie, la géographie, la climatologie, l'écologie rétrospective, l'histoire environnementale, etc. afin de mener l'étude de l'environnement.
Word-sense inductionIn computational linguistics, word-sense induction (WSI) or discrimination is an open problem of natural language processing, which concerns the automatic identification of the senses of a word (i.e. meanings). Given that the output of word-sense induction is a set of senses for the target word (sense inventory), this task is strictly related to that of word-sense disambiguation (WSD), which relies on a predefined sense inventory and aims to solve the ambiguity of words in context.
Déni du réchauffement climatiquevignette| Dérision du déni du réchauffement climatique. Le « déni du réchauffement climatique » est une attitude de dénégation face au consensus scientifique sur le réchauffement climatique. Certaines personnes admettent qu'il y a un réel changement, allant dans le sens d'un réchauffement global, mais nient que ce changement a une origine ou une part anthropique ; ils l'attribuent exclusivement aux variations naturelles du climat.